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What started the fire? The Grammy Award-winning singer had written a letter to the Miami Herald in support of a volunteer who was kicked off a Metro-Dade arts board. Peggi McKinley was fired for saying officials should end their ban on Cuba-based artists performing at county-sponsored events. As a result of the law, the French-based organizers of a major Latin American and Caribbean music conference had threatened to abandon Miami as a future venue, a move that would cost the city millions of dollars. "As an American," Estefan wrote, "I am frightened...
...artists, who are considered ambassadors of Castro's revolution, are frequent targets of exile wrath. When jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba performed in downtown Miami in April 1996, a crowd of 200 demonstrators spat on concertgoers as they tried to enter the theater. Three months later, a few days before singer Rosita Fornes, 74, was scheduled to perform at a popular night spot, someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window. The concerts were canceled, and the restaurant, Centro Vasco, a Miami institution, was shut down. "They feel like they are in a situation of war," says Miguel Gonzalez Pando...
DIED. ARTHUR TRACY, 98, radio's sentimental Street Singer, who peddled his wares (remember Marta?) on the airwaves of the 1930s; in New York City. Tracy's identity was kept secret when he made his radio debut...
Gomez's protagonists, a young rock band called Bottlecap, are a lot like him. Mark, the singer and guitarist, bassist Gary and drummer Steve start off writing and practicing songs in a shack on the out-skirts of their hometown of Kitty, Virginia. They play their first gigs to tiny crowds in the little bars in Kitty and surrounding areas and slowly build up the slight recognition that could be mislabeled as a following. Just before the beginning of Geniuses of Crack, Mark is approached by an A&R man from a new, alternative record company that wants to sign...
...Hellcat Records (they previously recorded on Moon Records), the band evidently attempts to follow the path to the main-stream created by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. The Bosstones, however, made the leap while still maintaining a high standard of instrumentation, song writing and vocals. On Willis, Steve Jackson, the singer for the Pietasters, all too often comes off as a poor man's Dicky Barrett. While Barrett of the Bosstones can pull off a scratchy, cigarette-tarnished voice, Jackson instills a pain rarely felt. Not since Biz Markie crooning, "Just a Friend," has there been a more shrill and annoying...